The scale of healthcare data has grown tremendously in recent years, increasing the need to present that data in ways that are more understandable and insightful.
Year: 2017
Endovascular Abdominal Aneurysm Repair
Back in the days of ICD-9 coding, the encoder was pretty straightforward when it came to procedure coding. Nowadays, the encoder will help craft a PCS code that looks right…
Decoding Upcoding in the Emergency Department
In a webinar from the Center for Health Journalism, Sarah Kliff and Niall Brennan discussed how murky “facility fees” and upcoding practices have contributed to a $3 billion rise in…
To Code or Not To Code
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Risk Adjustment model is not new. However, Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) seem to be this year’s buzz word.